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privately purchased by Mr. Hustler from Mr. Charles Colling 

 previous to his sale in 1810, and reputed to have given thirty-two 

 quarts of milk per day. Her daughters, Fairy and Strawberry, gave 

 the names to the two branches, Mr. Bates buying the former, which 

 was sired by the own brother to the Duchess heifer he bought from 

 Mr, C. Colling, Fairy was afterwards mated to Mr. R Colling's 

 Meteor 431 (also a son of Comet 155). and produced White Rose, 

 bought by Mr. Claridge, of Jerveaux Abbey, in calf to Acklam 713, 

 (a grandson of Comet 155), while his pedigree is otherwisef uil of good 

 blood. Rosebud was the name of the calf, and she produced Rosa 

 to Mr. Clariclge's Norman 1276, he also, like Acklam, was a grand- 

 son of the famous Comet 155, on the d.im's side, and only a degree 

 further on the sire's. The next cross, Lisbon 1172, was bred at 

 Jerveaux Abbey, out of Fairy's daughter, White Rose; Royal 

 Prince 5924, exceedingly full of Princess blood succeeded him, and 

 the heifer calf became known as Wild Rose, she being served in due 

 time with Mr. Bates' Duke of Richmond 7996, the first direct 

 Duchess sire introduced since Old Daisy had been bred to Mr. C. 

 Colling's Duke 226, Zadig 8796, the next sire in the pedigree, was 

 bred by Earl Spencer, and descended like Usurer, from Mr. Mason's 

 blood, used by Earl Ducie, at Tort worth, to re-invigorate the Duchesses. 

 When at Farnborough, Archdeacon ITolbech added nothing but 

 Bates blood, 1 1th Duke of Oxford 19632 and Earl of Chatham 28495 

 (a "pure" Lally out of the 4th Duke of Oxford cow), being the 

 grand-sire and sire of Danewort, now in her llth year suckling a 

 beautiful roan cow calf, the very last that is to arrive to that noble 

 sire, Duke of Connaught 33604. Danewort upholds the reputation 

 of the original Old Daisy, by giving after calving over twenty quarts 

 per diem from three quarters, and at ten months more than half 

 gone in calf she was giving ten quarts. Daisy Duchess, the oldest 

 daughter, bred at Woodside, has hitherto only had a couple of bulls, 

 and Fairy Duchess 7th, Dane wort's first heifer at Sydnope, is 

 somewhat noticeable on account of her gaudily marked hind legs. 

 Violet, the youngest of the Farnboiough "half dozen," apparently 

 enjoys the healthy breezes of the Derbyshire hills, as she is looking 



